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Selección Terror: El Retrato de Marvin Dors
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Selección Terror: El Retrato de Marvin Dors

· 1973

A Spanish pulp horror magazine featuring a grotesque close-up of a contorted face with an open mouth and haunted eyes, one hand raised in apparent distress against a murky green background. A Nazi swastika symbol looms behind the figure. The cover's blood-red masthead and yellow typography announce the story by Joe Mogar. This publication represents the continuation of pulp magazine culture into the 1970s—a tradition born from Depression-era periodicals that packaged fantastic fiction in vivid painted imagery. Spanish-language horror magazines drew from the same conventions that had animated American weird fiction: transgressive imagery, psychological terror, and the promise of forbidden narratives bound in cheap paper and sold at newsstands.

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Date
1973
Rights
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Restoration
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